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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-24
'Zekiel's TnfdelIty.

'ZektePs tnHdelity.
Lippencott
Mistis, rally wish you'd hol
A little conversation
Wild my ole Zekyel bout his soul;
Dat nigger's aggiwation
Is mos done Worried me to DEATH
Raslin' wild i'm at ev'y breath.
Dat evil sinners sot he face
Gin eV'y wud know,
Brer Gabriel says he's fell from grace,
An hell'n get him sho,
Use tried ref lection, 'twarn' nowharl
Use rastled wild de Lord in prar;
Use quoiled till wuz mo daid;
Use th'owed the spider at mis- haid;
But he ole haid twas so thick tn'oo
Hit bus my skillet spEng in TWO,
You kin dye black hyah and meek 1t light
You kin tut de EthOpe's spots to white,
You might grow TWO or tn zee cubics bigger;
But you can't onchange a po'white-folks mig
gerl
When .you's dwellin' on golden harps and
chunes,
po'-white.folks' nigger's thinkin' bout
coons;
An you's snifiin' de heavenly blossoms
po'-whight-folks' nigger's study ing bout pos
sums.
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30. aO67.-spoedy servauts.

enISUaS, cnaradee, rludles, REFUSES, and Othe
"knotty Problems" addressing all communi
cations relative TO this department to Il
Chadbourn, Lewiston, Maine.
No. 2O67.-Spoedy Servants,
Some huge bovines we once embraced,
And while their massive forms
In suggest fashions we encased,
Iney feared not frosts or storms.
Now, secrets of the world we hold
Within each rugged frame,
And messages we bear untold,
From Florida 70 Maine.
The strong, far-reaching arm OF law
Protects us everywhere,
It's penal which brings wholesome awe
To those who mischief dare.
We travel on with ceaseless speed,
Our haste brooks no delay;
We may hold news of many deed
To thrill the world to-day.
To many an aching heart may breathe
OF comfort from afar,
And many longing soul may grieve
With tidtngs OF despair
So north and south, and east and west
We hurry as we must
They may not loiter, may not rest
Who holds nations trust.
No. 2O68-A Central Acrostic,
A kind of quartz, in color green;
A place for pasture next is seen.
This 70 the morning does pertain,
For this kind OF tea obtain,
A spot or blemish, something small;
An evil spirit this is all.
A piece of music, is complete
Which, when well sung, TO the ear sounds sweet
CHAs. ]. HOUSTON.
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They mnst Treat Him Gently.
[netroit Eree PfeSs.l

Detroit Free Press
"Don't be rough on me, judge" re-
marked David Williams, as Stebbins
brought him out.
''What do you mean?'
why, don't call me names and say I'm
the worst man In the world, and threaten
to give me ten years. You can do far more
with me in q gentle way"
very we'll, prisoner, let me tnrow out
a soft hint that you were embarrassed yes
terday."
That's the way, judge. Yes, / was en-
barrassed.n
broad Of your back
81 was. It was O case Of mingled ex'
haustion and prostrahon."
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when the Hearse ONES Back.
James Whitcomb Riley.l
A thing ats bout as tryin' as healthy man
kin meet
Is some poor ieller's funeral joggin' long the
street;
Tho slow hearse and the hosses-slow enough,
10 say the least,
Fer to even tax the patience of the gentleman
The slow scrunch OF the gravel and the slow
grind OF he wheels.
The slow, slow go OF ev'ry woe at everybody
feels?
So rutber like the contrast when I hear the
whiplash crack
A quickstep fer the HOSES
When the
Hearse
Comes
Back
Meet it goin' lords the cemet'ry, you'll want to
But eff the plumes don't fetch you, ETH ketch
you o. Otherwise
And 'conomize and save yer signs fer any
Yer sympathizin' won't wake up the sleeper
from his rest
Yer tears won't thaw them hands his ats
froze across his breast ..,-,
And this is why-when airth and sky's gettin'
blurred and black
like the whoop and racket
Hesrse
Comes
Back
The 10y wadin' round here over shoemon.h
deep in woe, ~
When they's a graded pike o. Joy and sunshine
don't you know!
When evenin' strikes the pastur', cows'u pull
out for the bars,
And skittish-like from out the dark'u prance
the happy stars
And so when my time comes to die, and I've
got airy friend
AT wants expressed my last request-IH ,smeo'
by. rickommend
To drive slow, eff they hat TO, goIn' long the
outerd track,
But I'll smile and say, "You speed 'em
When the
Hearse
Comes
Bcak.
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goes in every case you might mention.
The best way to do is to do what you think
to be right-in short, do as you please.
You will meet with all sorts of abuse, but
brace mp and don't notice 1t, for people
will talk, you know.
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For which the sentence"
Gently, judge. Speak it softly"
us thirty days"
That will do. ] haven't q complaint to
make. You treated me kindly and gently
and l will go mp without protest. Good
bye, judge, and may your business thrive
and prosper until they have to enlarge the
workhouse."
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IF humor, wit and honesty could save'
from the ills flesh is heir to, what a good
price they'd bring in the market. Well,
txenty.fv cents will buy a cheap pana-
cea-Salvation Oil, certain cure.
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The Word Hunt.

2055-Anagram,
2r5e-China.
1857 miles the first day; 4, common differ
ence; A, II days; B, Is days, distance, Cos miles
overtakes A at the end OF his second and Al
sixth day, distance, 102 miles; after his twelfth
day A gains on B, overtakes him at the end Of
the seventeenth day, aud cannot again be over
taken bv B.
205S-Florascope.
2c59-Ma-or-i.
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MIR. Dream : MAX or.

lSt. Nicholas
Come, Mr. Dream maker, sell me tonight
The loveliest dream in your shop;
MY dear little laSsie is weary of light,
Her lids are beginning to droy.
She's good when she's gay. but she's tired OF
play,
And the tear-dreps win naughtily creep;
So, Mr., Dream maker, hasten pray,
My little girls going to sleep,
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Didn't Want Any.
New York SUM-

Barber Ito bald-headed customer)E"Ah,
Mr.. Jones, You ought to try some of Prof.
Invigorator's hair restorer. It's"
Customer-''But 1 don't want any hair
Barber Tin astonishment)-"Do want
hair"
Customer-''No, Pm married.
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No. 2O7O-A Phonetic Charade,

/ saw her in a dark gsey dress,
Eating salt and wafer-cress;
This action on her part Will tell
Exactly what the word is, we'll.
ANNIE NEWELL
No. 2O71-A Double Letter Enigma.
Those who "think" life is stale,
Humanity" the same,
Should read "this" primal tale
Those who thtnk life is stale
Should turn" TO life less tame;
Should search for nobler game,
Those who think life is sIale,
Humanity the same.
Those who Of reading" tire,
Should "stroll away" and live
" here two seems soraeway higher;
Those who of reading tire
Should read all, which will give,
A zest, and bid aspire.
Those who of reading tire.
Should stroll away and live.
ANIsE LANG.
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(THE NEW QUININE-,

"ANTED-Three honest pushing men In
w your vicinity; special inducements now;
fsst-selling Epecislties. Don't delay. Salary
from start. Brown Brothers, Nurserymen, Chi.
csgo. II. 81
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A Proud Position.

A Proud Position.
Fond Father-'Talk OF college mot fit
ting young,man for earning living. Just
as soon as Johnny graduated he obtained a
splendid position"
Friend-"Whatw was it?"
Fond Father-'First base. "-I.ife.
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Cousiderate Critter.


New York World.
tits fortunate thing that the 'enraged
Texas bull'I which invaded the navy yard
on Saturday did not fud one of the old
Robson "war vessels" in his path. II
"the crittern had butted the Monocacy,
for example, he would have injured hel
past repair and dulled by so much the
desire of Bill Chandler to get ION deck
apain
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q @ q r d.

To all who are suffering from the errors and
indiscretions Of youth, nervous weakness, early
decay, loss Of manhood. &c, Will send a recipe
thatwill cure you, FREE OF CHARGE. This great
remedy was discovered by missionary in South
America Send self-addressed envelope to the
REV. JOSEPH T. ISMAN. Station d. NeD York Cify.
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Who is Gallagher?

IChicago Tribunel
It's sounding upon every side,
The dumb night even hear
Its eehoing tumult, loud and wide,
From far away and Eearl
From young and old, from rich and poor,
From al, from high and low,
Goes up a call on Gallagher
A call TO "Let 'er 60"
WHAT'S the horror of his deed,
What the appalling fact,
How is ii that he doesn't heed
The clamOr DER his act?
What manner OF excuse has he
To make for doing so:
Who's she, and who is Gallagher?
Why won't he let 'er go?
And was the outrage coldly planned?
And is the maiden fair?
And has he got her by the hand
Or got her by the hair?
Is he money making rogue
Or disappointed beau?
Oh, who on earth is Gallagher?
Why don't he let 'er go?
Win nothing make the wicked scamp
His persecution cease.
Be he a gentleman or a tramp2
And where are the police?
is this medieval eye
When any daring foe
Nay steal q mali? Shan't Gallagher
Be forced TO let ergo?
Or is il some stern parents Whim
His daughter 20 confne
Where walls are thick and lights are dim,
And does the beauty pine
For one who swOre eternal love,
But hasn't any show?
What ails old Father Gallagher?
Why can't he let 'er go?
Has he a bulldog in the yard
Sharp at the set of sun,
And are his daughters windows barred,
And has he got gun?
Would argument avail with him,
Or would he answer "Nov'
What sort Of man is Gallagher,
Why don't he let 'er go?
A striking thing in gloves.
The way the fash'f goes,
Each season springs to Iigh.,
AS el cry person knows.
Thereh red AMI DIue and white,
And shades of total" hue,
With trimmings ''fnalp strange,
To catch the buyers view.
But striking thiog in gloves,
The most so on the list,
Is as the worlds aware
The pugilistic fist.
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KNOTTY PROBLEMS.

Our readers are invited TO furnish original
enfgnas, charades, riddles, refuses, and other
"Knotty Problems" addressing ali commune
cations relative TO this department to E. 3.
ChRdbourn, Lewiston, Maine
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-24
No. sO72-rransposition.

No. neutrality-suspicious..
i.
30 FIND A CENT" in this'I see
A trusted friend, so dear ome.
II,
This ZONE DRUG" has my preference
It's q reward or recomPense. HOUSTON.
No. 2O73-A menagerie.
The fastening of my shoe may be
sort of small menagerie.
The statement seems to be absurd,
Bull can prove il, every word,
For in the fastening doth appear
The male of rabbit, hare or deer.
Two more we see IL tits reversed,
cervine quadruped the first,
The next will, maybe, cause a scare
For It's frolicsome young bear,
And all these animals we view
In the metal clasp that's on nv shoe.
Young ONE.
The Word Hunt.
Uncle Charles new "word hunt is believed
to be entirely novel, different from anything
else ever tried. The words are 70 be formed from
"rat' by adding other letters to those three
words commencing with those letters 70 be ex-
C uded. The contest closes September 10. but
lists should be forwarded as early as possible.
Answers.
cO52-Music
205S-No-t-e-s.
2064-
HER
ARET
HA MERS
VERMIL LION
REEL ECT
RICE
SGT
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-09-30
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Fire in the town of Dandy, Canada on
Wednesday destroyed more than one hun
dred houses, and left about four hundred
people homeless. Loss $250,000
Four little girls, playing on the island of
Orleans, near Quebec, picked up an old
shell left on the field by an artillery camp
and applied lighted match to it. Three
were killed instantly and the fourth was
fatally injured.
A druggists clerk at Mill Grove, Canada,
put up morphine instead of quinine, and
killed three persons.
Reports that came last Saturday about
terrible cyclone at points on the Texas
coast were greatly exaggerated
The steamer Alesia arrived last week
Thursday night at New York from Mar
settles and Naples with Asiatic cholera on
board. Eight passengers had died of the
disease during the passage and several 9th
ers were sick. 1t broke out in the steerage.
Prompt quarantine measures were taken to
prevent the scourge from gaining foot
hold in this country.
President Cleveland has engaged spec
ial train for his trip to the West and South.
The journey will cover about $500 miles
and will cost him SIC, 600
While passenger tram on the Mobile
and Ohio railroad was running at the rate
of 40 miles an hour near jackson, Tenn.
on Tuesday morning the baggage car jump
ed the track and every coach and the
tender went over an embankment. Thirty
passengers were on board and more than
half of them were more or less injured.
Nine of Buffalo Bills Wild West Indians
arrived at Castle Garden Tuesday morning
on the steamer Wyoming They could not
stand the London fogs and were sent home.
Miss Phoebe w. Couzins has been ap-
pointed United States marshal at St
Louis by Justice Miller, in place of her
father, deceased Miss Couzns has for a
long time directed the executive affairs of
the office
The corn crop of the country is estimated
at 300, 900, 900 bushels.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-09-30

The Moves will case, which involves the
disposal of a very large sum of money,
came to an unceremonious ending in the
Chittenden county court at Burlington last
Friday. The testator, Vernon P. Moves,
Burlington banker, left will bequeathing
most of his property to his brother, a New
York banker and cutting off one daughter,
whose son claims inheritance by a later
will, The only witness to the existence of
the later document is g. NJ Delaney--the
same person, it is discovered, who was in
volved in the Maine paper credit frauds
during the war and was tried by military
commission and sentenced to the New
Hampshire state prison. There was SEN
sation in the court on Friday morning when
Senator Edmunds drew these facts out of
Mr. Delaney After making him admit
several malodorous points in his career, Mr..
Edmunds put in evidence a certificate of
the proceedings of special military com
mission held at Washington, 70 show that
Delaney was tried and convicted for aiding
in desertion, of procuring false and fraud
ulent certificates of discharge, of recruit
ing without authority from the war depart
ment, and various other charges, and that
he was sentenced TO be imprisoned ten years
in state prison to be designated, to pay a
fine of s45, 900, and be imprisoned till the fine
was paid. Delaney then testified that he was
sent TO the state prison at Concord, n. H.,
but was confined only five or six days, after
which he was given the liberty of Merri-
mack county. At the end of 10 months he
was pardoned as the result of proceedings
in the United States court.
At the opening of the session, before this
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writer which with others has lain in the
Ogdensburg a. Y Office almost 10 years,
and which were recently discovered while
the office was undergoing repairs. The one
sent here was written by r. II. Austin,
who lived here until recently and was en-
ployed by Alfred Sergeant.
The new Roman Catholic parsonage was
somewhat damaged Sunday night by fire
which started from an open CRATE.
p. Barrows announces elsewhere some
special bargains at his closing out sale in
Tylers block.
The prospect of rain ON Thursday did not
deter the ladies of the Universalst church
from going ahead with their preparations
for their annual harvest festival. The rain
kept off and the vestry was crowded. The
place was beautifully decorated with flow
ers, leaves, fruits and snowy vegetables,
and the tables, fringed with tinted leaves
and golden corn, were laden with variety
of the products of field and orchard. One
pyramid of leaves and fruits and vegetables
was veritable work of art. Supper was
eaten and enjoyed by all, and every article
on the tables was sold. The ladies put into
their treasury the comfortable sum of $45.
The following is the list of letters re-
manning in the post Office Sept. %:
Women Mary l. Baker, Rose NJ Best, Mrs s
Chamberlain, Julia Cassday, Mrs Mary VI CLARK
~ Addie w Hills Mrs Gleenny Mrs Maggie Greg
ory Emma johnson, Mrs Dan Kingsley Il Norm
Mrs ! 7 Miller, Ida @ Roberts, Nellie l. Rickert
Minnie Quittiner, Mrs A Spears, Mrs Sophronla
Sugland Mrs w Subway, Mrs w ii Skin
ners NJ q White (2l, Mrs e Winslow.
Men q Adams Clark l. Brown, George +
Briggs, Henry Briggs, G G Cutler A N Hitchcock
Lucian Hewett Irving W johnson, e Il Lester /
J. McCurdy, NJ = Moody, Willie Pasco, Capt / {
Rookie, G Robinson, John Riley + Towne
Geo y Spear i Wheeler. y D Mooda
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-09-30
MINOR NOTES.

Mrs Clinton Smith of Middlebury, super
intendent of the Vermont Woman's Christ
ian Temperance union, gives the figures of
the vote on the resolution allying that or
ganization with the political prohibition
party, and thus taking the w. G. T. U.
into party politics as follows: Members
present 1913; for the resolution, 10; against,
- ; leaving 66 who did not vote.
A drug clerk in Wichita, Kan, has been
sentenced to II years in the penitentiary
and to pay a fine of $2O,SOO for 2OSO
offences of selling liquor illegally. His
case is to be taken to the United States
supreme court on the provision in the CON
stitution that 'cruel and unusual punish
ments" are prohibited.
The claim that the present Administra-
ton has recovered millions of acres of pub
lie land from the railways and cattle kings
and turned it over to settlers is pronounced
false. Not a railway or cattle company
holds less land now than it did two years
ago.
The will of the late William A. Wheeler,
ex-Nice President of the United States, is
to be contested on the ground that he was
not competent to make a will at the time
it was dated, and that the signature is not
genuine
Mrs. Cleveland never drinks any kind Of
wine, and when at dinners where wine i,
served she takes Apollinaris water.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-09-30
PuIney,

Ada q. Pierce is suffering from AN attack
of hemorrhage of the lungs.
The W. c, T. T., beginning with next
week, will hold its regular meetings at the
reading room on Friday afternoons until
further notice.
The musicale given on Monday under the
direction of Mr.. +. +. Gorham brought out
a corps Of artists and afforded our citizens
fine musical treat The Brattleboro par.
ties who had been programmed all appear
ed and added largely to the enjoyment of
the occasion. Mr. Thomas Cushman of
Springfield, Mass, who is ingratiated in
the favor of our music luvers-having sung
here some time last winter-was also pres
emit and rendered fine tenor solo. Mrs
Allie Converse, who sings with caroling
and blrd-like expression, and our own
sweet-yolced Lima Thwing appeared TO
good advantage ms soprano soloists At the
piano Miss Stewart presided with readiness
ana grace and We questioned with some
uncertainty where TO rest the personality
so much did Miss Stewart and the piano
seem part of each other, and together as
one whole. OF the director, Mr.. Gorham
we will briefly remark that he sung with
his usual ease, certainty and unaffected
ness, For the Brattleboro singers, Mr.. l.. X.
W llls ana the male quartette, consisting of
Messrs, Taylor, Fraleigh Harlow and Ste
vens we voice the community in express
ing hearty thanks for their Kindness in
coming and sharing with us the pleasure of
their artistic requirements. The opening
and closing choruses were by local talent
mainly, and we could but note a marked
Improvement in the last few months. The
tasteful arrangement of the stage was the
work of Misses Zetta Stewart and Helen
Robertson.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-09-30
A. CoMMoDIoUs STORE.

The extensive improvements which Mr..
o. j, Pratt has had in progress on his store
for some two months past are now substan-
TALLY completed and the end of this week
will see the wOrkmen well out of the way
and everything in order ready to serve
the patrons of this we'll known establish
ment The most noticeable improvement
from the outside is the replacing of the old
front with a handsome new one of iron,
plate glass and cherry. In style this is near
ly uniform with that of Pratt, Wright 4
Co., and the appearance is very elegant. In
side, however, a still more important work
has been done in the complete reconstruc-
ton of the basement, the whole of which
will now be devoted to the sale of goods.
By the changes made handsome room has
been obtained of the full size of the main
floor, and well lighted front and rear. On
this basement floor there will be sold. be-
sides carpetings, rugs, oilcloths and mat
tings, as heretofore, heavy domestic goods,
including cottons, blankets, comfortables
and similar goods, A handsome staircase
of ash and walnut has been built, connect
ing the basement with the main floor. The
removal of the heavy domestics spoken of
TO the floor below will give more room on
the main floor for fine dress goods, trim
mings and the like, and the stock of these
finer dry goods will be larger than ever be
fore. II will be remembered that some two
or three years ago Mr.. Pratt devoted the
whole OF his second floor to the sale of
cloaks and other over-garments, connect
ing this second floor with the main floor by
broad staircase. With the changes now
made there are three floors, each S5 by %
feet IN size, devoted to the sale of goods in
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The COmmissiOn's Order TO the Rail-
rOnd Companies.

The Interstate Commissions opinion in
the Vermont railroad case, and its order
thereon, bear date "At a session of the In
terstate Commerce Commission held at
rooms of the Board of Trade in the city of
Chicago and state of Illinois on Wednes-
day, Sept. 81, 1887 The order of the
commission to the Central Vermont and
other defendant companies is in full as fol-
lows:
These three cases Those of the Boston & Al
bany railroad company and the Vermont state
grange against the offending companies having
been brought on to he heard at Rutland, in the
state OF Vermont, on documentary and oral test
mony, and counsel having been heard on behalf
Of the respective parties-that is to say, Mr.. Sam
Hoar for the complainauts in the first two Boston
& Albany cases, Mr. George F. Edmunds and Mr.
Haskins Of Haskins & Stoddard for the complain
ant in the third case THAT OF the state grangel
and Messrs. b. f. Fifeld and A. A. Strout for the
defendants and due deliberation having been had
and the report and opinion OF the commission be
ing now filed
ut is now ordered and adjudged that the Cen
trail Vermont railroad company and the other de
PENDANTS concerned with it in interstate traffic
between Boston in the state Of Massachusetts,
and st, Adams in the state of Vermont, or be-
tween Boston aforesaid and Ogdensburg in the
state Of New York, including those points respec-
lively do and shall wholly and Immediately de-
sist from charging or receiving in respect of any
part of such traffic greater compensation for
the transportation Of like kind of property for
a shorter than for longer distance overthe same
line in the same direction, the shorter being in
cuded within the longer distance.
And it is further ordered that copy Of this
order, with notice requiring obedience thereto be
forthwith sent to each Of the defendant corpora
tons and that at the same time there be also sent
to each Of such defendants copy of the report
and opinion OF the Commission above referred to,
Signed EDWARD A. MOSELEN,
-